It’s more important to me than I thought. But the option to use bigger stuff.. it’s good to make the option exist, and be easy.

Some simple ones... It would be hard to beat PBP. It’s not like I’d use a different language if I did something with a 16F877.

Incidentally, I read in other threads at least two people say they just don’t like C syntax.
I ported my calendar code to C for no reason because the dsPic has a calendar.
The only symbol difference is modulus of a division is // in PBP, but that is a comment in C, so the modulus symbol in C is %.
Something a litte more complicated LCD graphics. The only thing not written in BASIC straight into the C compiler is
an assembler routine which could be done in BASIC anyway, and the LCDOUT command you are expected to code yourself in C.

What I’m saying is it wouldn’t take a program as respectable as PBP that has to manage bank switching,
talk to routine it places through intermediate variables, etc. to write a BASIC parser that converted directly to C
and compile with Microchip C compiler taking advantage of their optimisations, etc.
I’m not saying it would be without difficulty, but not compared with what PBP has to do.
I don’t understand what that hasn’t been done. I would guess it is the market might not be that big.